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'THR' Cop Harboring Sexy Secret

Seth — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:25:02 EST

We realize times are lean, but did THR even glance at the royalty-free stock photography accompanying their "Know your fall TV pilots" feature?

Perhaps they could have chosen for their representation of police dramas someone other than Sergeant Eros of the 69th Precinct, here to serve you all a warrant...for a sexy good time! *Presses play on boombox, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" starts blasting.* [THR]

Report: Studio Unaware Of Production Shingle's Completely Stupid Tiger Movie

Seth — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:20:00 EDT

THR reports today that Briana "Daughter of B.J. and the Bear's Greg" Evigan has been cast as the lead in Burning Bright—a Born Free meets When A Stranger Calls thriller from Sobini Films in which "a woman wakes in the midst of a hurricane to find a tiger roaming through the home, [and is] forced to drag her autistic young brother through the house in a desperate attempt at survival." As if that isn't intriguing enough, an operative points out that two paragraphs from the end comes this curious statement, which has since gone missing from the online version:

Sobini Films has a first-look deal with Lionsgate, which is said to be unaware of the tiger story line.

We were as shocked as they were, for while it would be unrealistic of a mid-size studio like Lionsgate to keep tabs on every logline greenlit by its various producing partners, something about the cracked-out premise and they-can't-be-serious title of this particular project—which producers promise will do for wet, hungry tigers what Deep Blue Sea did for genetically modified smart-sharks—really should have raised some red flags of the "are these Sobini people playing with all 52?" variety down by Colorado Ave. HQ.

Briana Evigan has 'Bright' spot [THR]

Latest 'THR' Power List Heralds Ascendancy Of The Interactive Nerd

Seth — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Ah, the mighty power list: However would we make sense of this chaotic, ever-shifting Hollywood deal-making world without your easy-to-digest, number-based ranking systems? Having already charted the quantifiable influence of showbiz's most powerful men, women, vagina-having men, and even babies, THR now turns to the previously untapped power-list category of interactive entertainment, ranking, with no lack of grandiosity, what they dub The Digital Power 50. Flinging down lightning bolts from atop Mt. Hollywood 2.0 sits master of the Hanna Montana-screensaver domain, Disney Interactive head Steve Wadsworth. Rounding out the top three are President of Fox Interactive Media Peter Levinsohn, and Chief Digital Officer (the most sci-fi corporate title ever) of NBC Universal, George Kliavkoff. Grand total of women in the Digital Power 50: 5. Number of Harvey Levins: 1. Babies: 0. We're certain you have passionate opinions on the list's omissions: Feel free to voice them in our highly interactive comments section.

Digital Power [THR]